By SmokinNews, on August 29th, 2008%
SHINNSTON, WV – Josh Richards hopes his fourth-place finish in last Saturday night’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series A-Main at K-C Raceway in Alma, Ohio, provides the momentum he needs heading down the homestretch of the 2008 season.
The 20-year-old sensation from Shinnston, W.Va., sits third in the WoO LMS points standings entering this weekend’s tripleheader in Pennsylvania – a hefty 174 points behind cruising leader Darrell Lanigan, but only 30 points in arrears of second-place Steve Francis.
With less than a dozen events remaining on the WoO LMS schedule, Josh can see that a career-best points finish on the national tour is well within his grasp.
“Darrell has been so good all year so it’s obviously going to take something crazy happening for us to catch
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By SmokinNews, on August 28th, 2008%
INDIANAPOLIS (TSRS) – While the Labor Day holiday means an extra day of rest for much of the country, Tony Stewart Racing’s (TSR) USAC teams will be back on the road for two days of racing action. TSR’s Tracy Hines and Levi Jones will head back to Wisconsin on Friday with the USAC National Midget Car Series for the Seventh Annual Mid-State Equipment Sue Thiel Memorial. On Sunday, they’ll follow the road to Southern Illinois for the USAC K&N Silver Crown Series Ted Horn 100.
Friday’s event at the Dodge County Fairground Speedway in Beaver Dam, Wis., takes Hines to the half-mile dirt facility for the first time in his career. After finishing second at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wis., on Aug. 24, Hines will
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By SmokinNews, on August 27th, 2008%
WHAT
• The Gold Rush Tour continues for the Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series over the Labor Day weekend with four events in the always scenic Pacific Northwest. Skagit Speedway is first on the docket, with two full nights of racing on Friday, August 29 and Saturday, August 30. The series then heads to Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Washington for an event on Labor Day. The busy weekend wraps up on Tuesday, September 2 at Cottage Grove Speedway in Oregon, which is one of just three tracks on the schedule where the drivers turn single digit laps in time trials. Heading into these events, two-time defending series champion Donny Schatz leads Jason Meyers by 105 points in the season standings.
WHEN
• On Friday,
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By SmokinNews, on August 27th, 2008%
FORT WORTH, Texas (TMS) – Two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart possesses a passion for charitable causes that nearly rivals his one for racing.
Stewart made a special visit Tuesday to Texas Motor Speedway to conduct the inaugural “Smoke Show” fantasy camp to benefit the Speedway Children’s Charities-Texas Chapter and the event raised a record $217,000. That total makes the “Smoke Show” the largest grossing single-day event in the history of SCC-Texas Chapter.
“Tony has a huge heart when it comes to charities and we can’t thank him enough for the time and effort he put in for the ‘Smoke Show,’” Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage said. “It was an incredibly successful event that will make a very significant impact with Speedway Children’s Charities and
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By SmokinNews, on August 27th, 2008%
INDIANAPOLIS (TSR) –After a week of travel that led the Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series teams from Montana to Alberta, Tony Stewart Racing’s (TSR) Kraig Kinser is looking forward to the annual northwest swing, which includes races at Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash., Grays Harbor Raceway Park (GHRP) in Elma, Wash., and Cottage Grove (Ore.) Speedway.
Kinser, who is continuing his first full season on the WoO tour since 2005, has a special place in his memory bank for the northwest, since it was at Cottage Grove Speedway where he scored his first career WoO victory. That historic night came on Aug. 31, 2004, when Kinser beat his father, Steve, to the finish line and captured the first of his
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By SmokinNews, on August 27th, 2008%
ATLANTA (JGR) – The back-and-forth banter between Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson’s characters during the Cleary-Lodge wedding reception in “Wedding Crashers” is appropriate dialogue for this weekend’s Pepsi 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
With Jeremy Grey (Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Wilson) telling each other to “lock it up,” it’s a conversation drivers in the top-12 in points are having with themselves as only two races remain before the 12-driver Chase for the Championship is set.
While Joe Gibbs Racing driver and current Sprint Cup point leader Kyle Busch has already clinched his spot in the Chase – and with a series-best eight wins, the top spot to start the final, 10-race shootout – those behind him can secure their respective
Continue reading Tony Stewart – “You Better Lock It Up”
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